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The Council of Professionals of Canal Sur Television and Canal Sur 2, both Andalusian public service broadcaster Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA) channels, have elaborated a code containing recommendations and guidelines on gender equality and the portrayal of sexist violence on television. These consist of a set of principles to be followed by professionals linked to the corporation and have been developed in broad consultation with experts in law, security and sociology, as well as with associations for gender equality and protection. By the end of June 2011 RTVA’s general manager, Pablo...

On 22 June 2011 the Conseil de déontologie journalistique (Council for Journalism Ethics of the French Community) pronounced its decision regarding a complaint filed against the public broadcaster RTBF because of a report covering the funeral of M.-R. Morel. The latter was attached to the extreme right political party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) and she eventually died of cancer, after her illness had been widely publicised with her consent. The report was part of the public broadcaster’s news bulletin. In this report an explicit link was drawn between the illness of M.-R. Morel and her commitment...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly which is currently comprised of delegations from the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine enacted on 16 May 2011 a Model Statute on the Basics of Internet Regulation (Модельный закон «Об основах регулирования Интернета»). It consists of 3 chapters with a total of 13 articles. The Act sets out principles and determines major directions of regulation of relations that have to do with the use of Internet, sets procedures for state support of its...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

In a recently published report, the Wissenschaftliche Dienst (research office) of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) concluded that the EU’s Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC was incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (see IRIS 2010-4/12). The report stated that there was “definitely no way of interpreting this Directive […] in a way that is compatible with the Charter.” The Wissenschaftliche Dienst began by recognising the legitimacy of the purpose, suitability and necessity of the Directive. The objectives of protecting public order, preventing...